Elie Wiesel Quotes

That place, Mr. President, is not your place. Your place is with the victims of the SS.

Elie Wiesel

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• Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Faith
  • Road
  • Farewell

• The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Credit

• I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.

  

  Becky G
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Own

• Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Falling

• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Life
  • Success

• I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Family
  • Always
  • Pictures

• I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Head
  • Lion
  • Mouse

• We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Work
  • President
  • Will

• I was raised on NBC television.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Television
  • I Was Raised

• I think human societies tend to be problematic.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Human
  • I Think

• I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

  

  Jack London
  • Book
  • Purpose
  • Beauty

• I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Life
  • Acting
  • My Life

• Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • House
  • Nothing
  • Feet

• I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Up
  • Care
  • Enough

• Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Learning
  • Brain

• I want to be Miss USA or Miss America. I would bring the trophy back to Nebraska. My interests are agriculture and corn. Hey, I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Long
  • America
  • Fun

• I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Friends
  • Stars
  • Cinema

• My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Country

• It is in his pleasures that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

  

  Agnes Repplier
  • True

• As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee
  • Humble

• National pride has no need of the delirium of race. Anti-Semitism does not exist in Italy… Whenever things go awry in Germany, the Jews are blamed for it.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Pride

• To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But the cookbook record proves that the haute cuisine codified early in this century by Escoffier barely goes back to Napoleon's time. Before that, French food is not recognizable as French to modern eyes. Europe's menu before 1700 was completely different from its menu after 1800, when national cuisines arose along with modern nations and national cultures.

  

  Raymond Sokolov
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Records

• c is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

  

  Paul Mooney
  • Speech
  • Insanity

• That place, Mr. President, is not your place. Your place is with the victims of the SS.

  

  Elie Wiesel